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Real estate developer Vietnam Investment Group Joint Stock Co (VIG) has attracted banks from several geographies, with a policy bank from China, and a prominent Malaysian lender among those said to have committed. The deal has been well received in the market as banks look to build a longer term exposure to the fast developing southeast Asian country.

China National Bluestar returned to the international bond market for the second time in two weeks, raising $1bn on June 4. But this was not a standard transaction by any means and was more of a replacement for the first trade, which had been cancelled due to a contractual oversight.

And it traded up. Even the most cynical Brazil bears struggled to criticise Petrobras’s remarkable $2.5bn century bond — the largest 100 year issue by any borrower — that blew open capital markets access for the troubled oil giant.

Sivantos, the renamed spinoff of Siemens Audiology Solutions, has launched a repricing of a €785m leveraged loan backing its buyout by EQT, which closed last December.

Telecom Italia said on Wednesday that it would seek to price the initial public offering of Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane, its telecom towers unit, in Milan at €3.25 to €3.90 a share, for a valuation of €1.95bn to €2.34bn.

Optimal Payments, the Isle of Man-based secure payments provider, has guided pricing on the financing for its acquisition of Skrill, before closing the deal, and replaced amortising loans with a bullet facility.

The Gabonese Republic and MFB Hungarian Development Bank have little in common, other than being the best prospects to break the Middle East’s dominance of the CEEMEA benchmark market.

MarketAxess, the fixed income electronic trading platform, data and post-trade services provider, has hired veteran credit trader Scott Eaton as its chief operating officer for Europe.

PizzaExpress, the largest UK casual dining restaurant operator, priced on Tuesday a £55m tap of its senior secured bond to fund the purchase of 28 franchise businesses in China and Hong Kong.

Banco Sabadell ended a month-long drought of periphery issuance on Friday by scraping through a €750m five year covered bond sale. A mooted 10 year never appeared.

XPO Logistics, the US transport logistics company, wants to issue a $2bn-equivalent four tranche bond to fund its acquisition of Norbert Dentressangle, the French trucking group.

China National Bluestar, which raised $1bn from its maiden dollar bond last week, has reopened books to the same deal on June 4 as a result of a contractual oversight.